Title

Warehouse, used as distributing office for FSA relief grants..., Bakersfield, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Caption

Warehouse, used as distributing office for Farm Security Administration (FSA) relief grants of commodities to destitute farm labor families during cotton strike of October 1938. Bakersfield, California.

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22A51_138

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,0Mb (1,7Mb) / 16,5in x 12,4in / 4960 x 3733 (300dpi)

Keywords

California building agriculture female women woman people male library office employment job man men farming waiting economics country warehouse warehouses guy occupation photography relief poor poverty strike location century profession distribution thirties concept depression negative recession B&W relieved destitution benefits benefit strikers striker Library of Congress Bakersfield United States of America destitute welfare distributing black & white black and white B W 1930s farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 20th century farmworker farmworkers Great Depression cotton pickers American America USA agricultural worker farm labourer industrial action TGN photograph cotton picker united states Kern Congressional Library Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers Dorothea Lange Lange Dorothea Taylor Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange Taylor Russell Lee Lee Russell on strike Farm Security Administration FSA Office of War Information OWI Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn Nutzhorn Dorothea Margaretta nitrate negative